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Australia is one of the most fire-prone countries on earth and bushfires can cause widespread devastation. In the right conditions a small fire can quickly become a massive one if not quickly controlled. When weather, topography, vegetation and fuel combine to defeat the best efforts of firefighters, bushfires can cause millions of dollars in damage and claim lives.

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Australian Criminology Information Bulletin

ISSN 1034-6627

Vol. 1 No. 1 March 1990 - Vol. 5 No. 6 February 1995

This Information Bulletin is produced by staff of the Institute's JV Barry Library.

Commissioned by the Ministerial Council on Drug Strategy as a project under the cost shared funding arrangement.

Report to the ACT Chief Minister's Department by the Australian Institute of Criminology.

Note: This report is the second part of the report by the Chief Minister's Department titled Profile of young offenders in the ACT 2001 - 2002.

Proceedings of a seminar held 3-7 February 1986

Contents

• Welcome and official opening
  Professor Richard Harding
• Introduction
  Ms Jan Carter
• History of child abuse in Australia
  Professor Peter Boss
• Who owns child sexual abuse?
  Mrs Sharyn Butt
• Definitions of emotional abuse
  Ms Jan Carter
• Child sexual assault prevention programs: implications of their introduction to Australia
  Ms Moira Carmody and Ms Affrica Taylor
• The evaluation of child abuse services
  Dr Sally Leivesley